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The Netherlands is drafting in soldiers to support hospitals as Covid cases surge, Agence France-Presse reports.
The UMC Utrecht hospital has opened a second care unit which can take patients with Covid-19 from across the region and is being helped by 50 members of the military with medical backgrounds.
